Canada’s criminal justice landscape has been shaped by contrary trends in recent years. As the crime rate declines, policy-makers continue to push for tough-on-crime legislation, and university criminology programs continue to expand. Given these trends, what does the future hold for criminology and criminal justice?

This book presents the work of a new generation of critical criminologists who explore the geographical, institutional, and political context of the discipline in Canada. Breaking away from mainstream criminology and popular law-and-order discourses, the authors present a spectrum of theoretical approaches to criminal justice – from governmentality to feminist criminology, from critical realism to anarchism – and they propose novel approaches to topics such as genocide, white-collar crime, and the effect of prison sentences on families. By posing crucial questions and attempting to define what criminology should be, this book will shape debates about crime, policing, and punishment for years to come.

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A new generation of critical criminologists examines the future of criminology and criminal justice in Canada.

Introduction: Questions for a New Generation of Criminologists / Aaron Doyle and Dawn Moore

Part 1: Canadian Criminology in the Twenty-First Century

1 The Dilemmas of "Doing" Criminology in Québec: Curse or Opportunity? / Benoît Dupont

2 Reconciling Spectres: Promises of Criminology / Bryan R. Hogeveen

3 Commodifying Canadian Criminology: Applied Criminology Programs and the Future of the Discipline / Laura Huey

Part 2: Expanding the Criminological Focus

4 Corporate and White-Collar Crime: Reflections on the Study of Financial Wrongdoing in the Era of Neo-Liberalism / James W. Williams

5 Criminological Nightmares: A Canadian Criminology of Genocide / Andrew Woolford

6 Power and Resistance in Community-Based Sentencing / Diana Young

7 Stigma and Marginality: Gender Experiences of Families of Male Prisoners in Canada / Stacey Hannem

Part 3: Theory and Praxis

8 Reimagining a Feminist Criminology / Gillian Balfour

9 The Promise of Critical Realism: Toward a Post-Empiricist Criminology / George S. Rigakos and Jon Frauley

10 The Right to the City on Trial / Lisa Freeman

11 Anarcho-Abolition: A Challenge to Conservative and Liberal Criminology / Kevin Walby

Index

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Finally, a book that brings together the state-of-the-art in Canadian critical criminology. The contributions to this volume are by the new Young Turks of Canadian criminology, and what they have to say is distinctive and important ... Students of criminology across Canada must read this book if they are to understand and appreciate the state of play in academic criminology and realize what they are in for when they take on the label “criminologist.”
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These essays on the future of criminology and criminal justice in Canada will shape debates about crime, policing, and punishment for years to come.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780774818353
Publisert
2011
Utgiver
Vendor
University of British Columbia Press
Vekt
540 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
336

Biographical note

Aaron Doyle is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Carleton University. Dawn Moore is an associate professor in the Department of Law at Carleton University.

Contributors: Gillian Balfour, Benoît Dupont, Jon Frauley, Lisa Freeman, Stacey Hannem, Bryan Hogeveen, Laura Huey, George Rigakos, Kevin Walby, James W. Williams, Andrew Woolford, Diana Young